'Gates' in the Bible
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.